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New purchase option - Steering Wheel
- Thread starter BogeyGofler22
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strider
Active Member
Yoke sucks! 
. They are also going to offer a retrofit for existing owners for $700:
. They are also going to offer a retrofit for existing owners for $700:Who ever thought youād have to option a steering wheel to a car.
Joshnickell
Member
Now that Iām used to the yoke. I wouldnāt go back.
MikeKFE
2023 MXP | 2023 MSLR
After using a yoke for 6 months, I would not go back. But choice is a good thing.
aesculus
Still Trying to Figure This All Out
I was looking for a flying focused quip since a "go around" is a pilot term. Then backed up a bit and it was obvious.
I think choice is good, but it also slows what I think is a necessary transition. I've had the wheel in an X and had the yoke and for me the yoke is better in most cases. I think a lot of people on twitter who say they hate the yoke aren't using it every day, it's really not a hinderance at all.
Note that this only replaces the yoke with a roundish steering wheel. You do not get turn and forward/reverse stalks with the round wheel option.
I will choose yoke. It is so cool even if I have never easily pressed any button successfully.
The yoke makes it pretty easy to hit the buttons. They are always within thumb-reach when your hands are on the yoke.
Interesting that this has appeared just as they've started to sell the car in European markets. I can quite see in the US with your mostly straight roads or gentle sweeping corners it's fine. European roads tend to be far more windy and twisty. I could see it being problematic on roads with near 90 degree turns to do safely and quickly.
The yoke is not a problem on windy tight roads. In a parking lot it sometime requires a bit more turn than I like, but nothing extreme.
bookiepilot69
Member
indy360
Member
strider
Active Member
Transition to what? Your post says it all - the yoke is "not a hinderance". The yoke does not improve driving in any way - the best that anyone can say about the yoke is that it's not that bad. It is clearly NOT better than a wheel. A wheel is better than the yoke in certain cases (see below) and the yoke is better than a wheel in zero cases.
I drove with the yoke for 9 days and hated every day. I could have adapted (humans are adaptable creatures after all) but why? As I said above, the adaptation would have been for zero benefit. I have other things to spend my mental energy on.
Tesla's 180 on this proves my point - they were wrong.
Agree. They drove the Nurburgring with a yoke. But carparks and u-turns are a nightmare. Good riddance.
